¹⁵ Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, ^(A)for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”

²⁷ From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the Lord.

¹¹ They sacrificed to the Lord on that day ^(A)from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.